SOMALIA
Anarchy, war, terrorism, piracy
US Military Involvement
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcB-4OU9XPI
• Warlords – local military leaders who control
regions – traded donated food for weapons
instead of giving it to citizens
• General Aideed (Aidid) – warlord who became
main US target – Black Hawk Down incident
occurred on mission to take him out
al-shabaab
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Sn8AsKhFcE
• Captured Mogadishu, the capital, in 2011
• Pushed out by combined African forces from
several countries
• Kenya mall attack – Sept. 2013
Pirates
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktPd8Xsr1
PY - 6:20-9:50
The future map? Or the current map?
• Somaliland and Puntland are breakaway regions of Somalia.
• Due to the lack of a government in Somalia, they have had
self-rule but not international recognition to be separate
countries.